I think it's much more likely that the problem stems from incompetance on the part pf the election judges at the polling places. My girlfriend is a law student in Maryand- she became an election judge to gain insight into the the process for a paper she is writing in her election law class. She was quite astounded at the disregard for the law exhibited by her fellow judges. They ended up with more votes than voters... I imagine similar forces are at play in Fla.
As I recall, the foundation of the HMO model is that proprly applying preventive care, etc. will reduce the cost of health care. The HMO business model was designed by the government- and pushed forward by gov. regulations requiring HMOs to be offered by employers.
I think the problem with health insurance is that the wrong people buy it. The System as it is now usually has companies buying it for their employees, which is, IMHO, just plain stupid. It should be illegal for companies to buy health insurance for their employees, damnit. The person who is insured should be the customer, not the company they work for.
Everyone hates HMO's these days, and for some reason they come to the conclusion that the answer to the problem is that we should just have one big HMO.
As for accountability, see above.
As for universal health care/socialized medicine- I don't see how the federal government has the constitutional authority to do that.
If the Green could get 5% vote and thus Federal funding for election, this would be a big boost to democracy in our political system.
Or die trying- look at the reform party. Is the green party organized well enough so that if they did get the 5% they would be able to absorb the influx of people and maintain control of their own party? Are they on the ballot in every state?
An MP3 encoder won't preserve a watermark, right? It encodes based on what we hear, so subtle distortions will be filtered out. Even if the watermark effects the MP3 a tiny bit, such that it was still detectable, it seems that by adding some noise to the signal before you mp3 compress it you could thwart them...right?
I'm happy to say that thr RIAA is fucked.
Too bad the MPAA isn't as fucked. But they're getting there.
If he can't sign it in good faith, he shouldn't sign it. No contract can force you to do anything against the public interest, and if he doesn't think the patant application is valid, wouldn't he be committing fraud? The IP clause in those contracts is to prevent him from filing the patant on his own.
I'd rather they just putz around and mot get it sorted out, then. I won't get a DVD player until there is a legal, open source DVD player. I also won't ever buy a DVD with region encoding or macrovision. It's not a boycott, per se- it's more like avoiding onions cuz they give me the runs.
...an affirmative defense that bars the copyright holder from enforcing its copyright unless and until its misuse is cured.
Which sounds to me like there would be an infringement grace period.
Say I m infringing, and I win a suit against me on misuse.... After the misuse is cured, they can't sue me again, right?
I understand the affirmative defence concept- like pleading guilt by temporary insanity or He Needed Killin'... But if a court ruled that misuse was going on, and I'm not related to the case in which that was shown, can't I then infringe freely with the knowledge that the (C) can't be enforced?
I was just thinking of that- the PDF talks about how 'copyrught misuse may be found based on attempts to use legal proceedings to extend a copyright improperly'...
Would this apply to:
An action that tries to impede fair use?
An attempt to enforce a provision in a shrink/click wrap license which is unenforceable? (w/o ucita) For anti-reverse engineering clauses such as with decss?
The MS Kerberos extensions specificatins file.
How far would the copyright misuse defense reach? If MegaCorp was suing me for infringement, can I show misuse on an unrelated copyright as part of my defense, of would it need to be on the specific copyright on which the suit is being filed?
More on topic,
If Napster prevails on the misuse front, do the RIAA copyrights fall into public domain? When they fix their misuse, do they revert to the copyright? What, then, of copies made during the frenzy that will certianly ensue?
I used to have doubleclick and a couple of other sites filtered in that way, but I did have problems with it (Only on one site that I can recall..). When I went to some press release site, newswire or something, the whole page would be replaced by my 404 error. Quite annoying. This was in netscape in linux. Anyone know why? I hate wasting valuble napster bandwidth on ads...
You're right, it would take considerably longer than a couple of hours.
If they can break 56 bit des in a couple of hours, then simply double it 72 times and thats how long it would take (assuming that the brute force attack is the most efficient and they could scale their special purpose crackers up to 128 bits with some arbitrary algorithm.) It's bleak.
If you buy a book, you can sell that book to a used book store and they can sell it again. when you bought the book, that was the first sale, and the publishers rights to place restrictions on the sale of that book ended at tht point. Note that this does not mean that you can legally pirate it, only that the publisher can't forbid reselling, etc.
Incidentally the guy asking the question can certianly lend a DVD to his friend. The unauthorized lending would be if blockbuster was renting them, without paying the royalty fees or whatever they use to screw the rental places.
Not so. Had he patented air, it's manufacture and use are subject to his approval. If you own a store and you provide air to your customers as they shop, you are guilty of contributory infringement. You could file a patent for the notion of using air to apply pressure to your skin to keep your body from exploding, however, and use that as a defensive patent. Work out some of the chemical processes in the body involving air.
On CNN a coupla weeks ago- some guy had modified versions of this thing called 'Gaydar' and was selling them on the net in the US. They had the obligatory interviews with some gay people in SF, and the obligatory 'But...What if a gaybasher gets hold of one of these things? Won't someone please think of the Gaybashers!'... But I think it's cute and I've been trying to get my company to sell them.
I work in the BDSM toy industry, and I always thought it would be neat to have a palm pilot fetish matchmaker program. Two people meet, aim their palms at each other, and find out what perversions they have in common.
Banks *CAN* make mistakes. Just last year my bank paid out too much on a check I wrote. I wouldn't have caught it if I just downloaded their info. Since I kept my own records, I just went in and told them, and got my $3 back.
While we probably couldn't solve a problem faster then a computer, maybe we're more efficient about it... We can make better guesses than a computer, we don't have to apply an algorithm blindly, and we can appreciate the whole problem at once..
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I think it's much more likely that the problem stems from incompetance on the part pf the election judges at the polling places. My girlfriend is a law student in Maryand- she became an election judge to gain insight into the the process for a paper she is writing in her election law class. She was quite astounded at the disregard for the law exhibited by her fellow judges. They ended up with more votes than voters... I imagine similar forces are at play in Fla.
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As I recall, the foundation of the HMO model is that proprly applying preventive care, etc. will reduce the cost of health care. The HMO business model was designed by the government- and pushed forward by gov. regulations requiring HMOs to be offered by employers.
I think the problem with health insurance is that the wrong people buy it. The System as it is now usually has companies buying it for their employees, which is, IMHO, just plain stupid. It should be illegal for companies to buy health insurance for their employees, damnit. The person who is insured should be the customer, not the company they work for.
Everyone hates HMO's these days, and for some reason they come to the conclusion that the answer to the problem is that we should just have one big HMO.
As for accountability, see above.
As for universal health care/socialized medicine- I don't see how the federal government has the constitutional authority to do that.
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People do have the time to make decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to fight against the decisions made for us.
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If the Green could get 5% vote and thus Federal funding for election, this would be a big boost to democracy in our political system.
Or die trying- look at the reform party. Is the green party organized well enough so that if they did get the 5% they would be able to absorb the influx of people and maintain control of their own party? Are they on the ballot in every state?
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'then tough'????
How easy it is for you to dismiss the rights of thousands of people.
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You mean |= ' ';
' ' = 0x20 = 32 = 0100000.
Course, I'm just nit picking.
Chris
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An MP3 encoder won't preserve a watermark, right? It encodes based on what we hear, so subtle distortions will be filtered out. Even if the watermark effects the MP3 a tiny bit, such that it was still detectable, it seems that by adding some noise to the signal before you mp3 compress it you could thwart them...right?
I'm happy to say that thr RIAA is fucked.
Too bad the MPAA isn't as fucked. But they're getting there.
Chris
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If he can't sign it in good faith, he shouldn't sign it. No contract can force you to do anything against the public interest, and if he doesn't think the patant application is valid, wouldn't he be committing fraud? The IP clause in those contracts is to prevent him from filing the patant on his own.
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I'd rather they just putz around and mot get it sorted out, then. I won't get a DVD player until there is a legal, open source DVD player. I also won't ever buy a DVD with region encoding or macrovision. It's not a boycott, per se- it's more like avoiding onions cuz they give me the runs.
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A dud moving at 200 knots, powered by a rocket, isn't much of a dud, and does sync up with the two explosions reported.
Chris
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DISC IANAL,BMGIALS
...an affirmative defense that bars the copyright holder from enforcing its copyright unless and until its misuse is cured.
Which sounds to me like there would be an infringement grace period.
Say I m infringing, and I win a suit against me on misuse.... After the misuse is cured, they can't sue me again, right?
I understand the affirmative defence concept- like pleading guilt by temporary insanity or He Needed Killin'... But if a court ruled that misuse was going on, and I'm not related to the case in which that was shown, can't I then infringe freely with the knowledge that the (C) can't be enforced?
chris
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I was just thinking of that- the PDF talks about how 'copyrught misuse may be found based on attempts to use legal proceedings to extend a copyright improperly'...
Would this apply to:
An action that tries to impede fair use?
An attempt to enforce a provision in a shrink/click wrap license which is unenforceable? (w/o ucita) For anti-reverse engineering clauses such as with decss?
The MS Kerberos extensions specificatins file.
How far would the copyright misuse defense reach? If MegaCorp was suing me for infringement, can I show misuse on an unrelated copyright as part of my defense, of would it need to be on the specific copyright on which the suit is being filed?
More on topic,
If Napster prevails on the misuse front, do the RIAA copyrights fall into public domain? When they fix their misuse, do they revert to the copyright? What, then, of copies made during the frenzy that will certianly ensue?
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I used to have doubleclick and a couple of other sites filtered in that way, but I did have problems with it (Only on one site that I can recall..). When I went to some press release site, newswire or something, the whole page would be replaced by my 404 error. Quite annoying. This was in netscape in linux. Anyone know why? I hate wasting valuble napster bandwidth on ads...
chris
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I'll take 10% to keep quiet, please.
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You're right, it would take considerably longer than a couple of hours.
If they can break 56 bit des in a couple of hours, then simply double it 72 times and thats how long it would take (assuming that the brute force attack is the most efficient and they could scale their special purpose crackers up to 128 bits with some arbitrary algorithm.) It's bleak.
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If you buy a book, you can sell that book to a used book store and they can sell it again. when you bought the book, that was the first sale, and the publishers rights to place restrictions on the sale of that book ended at tht point. Note that this does not mean that you can legally pirate it, only that the publisher can't forbid reselling, etc.
Incidentally the guy asking the question can certianly lend a DVD to his friend. The unauthorized lending would be if blockbuster was renting them, without paying the royalty fees or whatever they use to screw the rental places.
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I see your point.. And the MS would have to read through all the trolls to find the posts.
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These should be added to the list with insightful, etc.
+1 Trade Secret
+1 Copyright Violation
+1 National Secret
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Not so. Had he patented air, it's manufacture and use are subject to his approval. If you own a store and you provide air to your customers as they shop, you are guilty of contributory infringement. You could file a patent for the notion of using air to apply pressure to your skin to keep your body from exploding, however, and use that as a defensive patent. Work out some of the chemical processes in the body involving air.
Chris Rohlfs
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UCITA is not yet in effect in Virginia. It was passed and signed, though.
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On CNN a coupla weeks ago- some guy had modified versions of this thing called 'Gaydar' and was selling them on the net in the US. They had the obligatory interviews with some gay people in SF, and the obligatory 'But...What if a gaybasher gets hold of one of these things? Won't someone please think of the Gaybashers!' ... But I think it's cute and I've been trying to get my company to sell them.
I work in the BDSM toy industry, and I always thought it would be neat to have a palm pilot fetish matchmaker program. Two people meet, aim their palms at each other, and find out what perversions they have in common.
chris
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Try Scilab
chris
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Banks *CAN* make mistakes. Just last year my bank paid out too much on a check I wrote. I wouldn't have caught it if I just downloaded their info. Since I kept my own records, I just went in and told them, and got my $3 back.
Chris
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Some versions of Quicken 98 had a y2k bug in that feature. I didn't bother to upgrade since I don't use that feature.
Chris
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While we probably couldn't solve a problem faster then a computer, maybe we're more efficient about it... We can make better guesses than a computer, we don't have to apply an algorithm blindly, and we can appreciate the whole problem at once..
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